Yea it does suck. I too would like to draft like once a day so that I can play better at my paper mtg drafts. I guess you can do it with netdraft and Magic workstation for free, but finding 8 people is not easy and the interface of netdraft is bad (never drafted once with it though).

If any people here want to sell tickets, I can pay paypal and stars.

mtgodrafters has tix at 1,08$, thats pretty expensive but cheaper than buying them from the store (atleast for me, 1 ticket is 1,23$ here).

MWS drafting is like playing poker for play money in terms of skill level difference

this game eats my money

This. It's kept me out of MTGO for the most part, to be honest. When I drafted paper magic, selling the rares and doing well semi-often was enough to keep me in the game at a pretty low cost.

MTGO is a pure money sponge - the packs cost just as their paper retail counterparts, but singles have almost no value. Even stuff that would more or less "pay for your draft" in paper magic like titans, foil staple rares like Drowned Catacomb, etc. sell for a fraction of a ticket. It feels like playing a poker game where they rake every pot for 75%.

I've often wondered how they manage to get away with it legally in the U.S... you don't even have to be 18 to play, but they can happily bill my paypal and suck down money five times a day if i want.

Can my U.S. friends play on Pokerstars again, if Stars agrees to let them buy in with "tickets" that they sell for $1 each through paypal?

I mean, as long as Stars doesn't buy these $1 "tickets" back but allows them to be traded player to player, then it's legal... right? 13 and over to play?

Just slap a pair of Raymer glasses on Washington's face and change the top from "Federal Reserve Note" to "Functional Replacement Note" and we're good to go.

Yeah that pisses me off too. the other thing that pisses me off is that enough people realized it, they wouldn't legalize poker, they'd just ban MODO.

Anyone want like 25k free commons? Stopped playing MODO a while back because I realized it was destroying my productivity, just PM me and I'll give you my login info.

i went R/G/U w/ 3x vorstclaw last night in an 8/4. swept my way to the finals and then modo ****ed me. it said my opponent was timing out, then i get D/C when they have like 8 mins left, come back and the game is gone

Whenever it appears your opponent is unresponsive, right-click your name -> info. If you can see your ratings then you are connected to the server, otherwise you are disconnected. There are different chat and game servers so this is necessary.

Ty for the info

found someone

Nice of you to do that. Thats worth a nice $.

this

hey add me on Skype sir

we should get a Skype group chat together

lol Kibler drunk streams

For suuuuure.

Yeah buying packs in the classifieds is the way to go. On Saturday 3xAVR was sold for 10.

Here's a pretty good article on maximizing EV on MTGO:
http://www.blackborder.com/q/node/9363

It's a bit old but still mostly valid. Basically, play some constructed as well (pauper and block are prob the cheapest alternatives) to get tix for drafting. Or be very leet at drafting.

thnx soulman appreciate it

i wish drafting was cheaper if it was like .50c a game i would play non stop

i like pauper format but some people have insane combos that i dont even get a turn =/